In an effort to revive my personal blogging routine, I've installed MangoBlog, a ColdFusion based blogging package that comes just about as close to WordPress as I've seen for any ColdFusion alternative.  I've tried a handful of CF blog tools, and this one has a series of features that make it very attractive to me.

Despite being a CF Developer by trade, I often opt for the WordPress package for my blogging efforts. The ColdFusion purists may cry foul since WordPress is a PHP powered tool, but the feature set is second to none, it's easy to use and install, and the number of developers supporting the base software and the huge library of plug-ins is huge!

MangoBlog comes pretty darn close, with a solid plug-in API, and a small library of plug-ins and a small library of themes.  I spent the better part of Sunday fitting the open source Arclite theme to the MangoBlog skinning architecture and the results are what you see before you now.  I'm still trying to get some of my plug-ins configured and working as expected, specifically the SyntaxHighlighter plug-in so that I can share CF code samples.

Wish me luck... Let's see if we can stick with this.  In the meantime, check out our ColdFusion podcast entitled This Week in ColdFusion.  We just published our latest last night!